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NKorea proposes resuming aid projects
Feb 27 2007 11:48PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Wednesday proposed a resumption of humanitarian projects at the first high-level talks with South Korea in the wake of Pyongyang's nuclear test, heralding renewed reconciliation between the Koreas after the North pledged to dismantle its atomic program.
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Japan, N.Korea to hold bilateral talks
Feb 27 2007 10:43PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan and North Korea will hold bilateral talks on establishing diplomatic relations and resolving mutual disputes March 7-8 in Vietnam, the top government spokesman said Wednesday.
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Bomb within earshot of Cheney kills 23
Feb 27 2007 6:12PM (CT)
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) - In what the Taliban claimed was an assassination attempt, a suicide bomber attacked the main gate of a U.S. military base Tuesday within earshot of Vice President Dick Cheney. The explosion killed 23 people, including two Americans, and delivered a propaganda blow that undercut the U.S. military and the weak Afghan government it supports.
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China rejects criticism of military
Feb 27 2007 4:23PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China rejected criticism by Vice President Dick Cheney about its military ambitions, saying Tuesday that it is a force for stability in the world. Cheney, on a swing through Asia last week, said some of Beijing's actions were at odds with its words about its military expansion being peaceful.
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Pakistan girl was to be poker debt bride
Feb 27 2007 2:45PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Police are seeking 10 men, including several tribal elders, accused of pressuring a Pakistani woman to hand over her teenage daughter as payment for a 16-year-old poker debt, officials said Tuesday.
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U.S., Italian envoys hurt in Sri Lanka
Feb 27 2007 2:20PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Rebels fired on Sri Lankan military helicopters carrying six foreign envoys Tuesday, slightly wounding the U.S. and Italian ambassadors and sending the group screaming and running for cover.
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U.S. allows aid for Cambodia projects
Feb 27 2007 10:32AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Direct U.S. aid to support Cambodian government projects will resume following the lifting of a decade-old ban by Washington, the U.S. ambassador said Tuesday.
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U.K.'s Beckett: Failed Iraq a great risk
Feb 27 2007 6:45AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A failed Iraq would pose as great a risk to international security as Afghanistan when it was controlled by the Taliban and provided a secure base for al-Qaida, Britain's foreign secretary warned Tuesday.
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South Korean students to get bodyguards
Feb 27 2007 3:54AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The government will provide free bodyguards for students fearful of violence from peers on their way to school, the Education Ministry said Tuesday.
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Gov't flounders in north Afghanistan
Feb 27 2007 3:51AM (CT)
PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan (AP) - The disarmament of Afghanistan's illegal private militias has ground to a halt and the price of weapons in the country's relatively quiet north is skyrocketing _ a sign of the embattled central government's failure to assert its control, Afghan and Western officials say.
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Cheney asks Pakistan to counter al-Qaida
Feb 27 2007 1:16AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Underscoring growing alarm in the West at how militants have regained ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday sought Pakistani aid to help counter al-Qaida's efforts to regroup, officials said.
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China premier: Democracy 100 years away
Feb 27 2007 1:05AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Communist leaders have no plans to allow democracy in the near future because they must focus on economic development before political reform, China's No. 3 leader said in comments published Tuesday.
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Pet python strangles owner in Vietnam
Feb 27 2007 12:10AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A pet python strangled its 69-year-old owner in southern Vietnam, despite his daughter-in-law's desperate efforts to save him, police said Tuesday.
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